Cheryl K. Chumley

Gummy Bear creator dies of heart failure, age 90

The man who was the brains behind the original gummy bear died at the age of 90 due to heart failure, his Haribo office in Germany said in a statement on Tuesday.

October 16, 2013

Al Sharpton attacked by black clergy for putting fame before needs of Harlem

Let the dethroning of Rev. Al Sharpton begin — that's nearly the mood of four members of the clergy who live in Harlem, who have sent invitations to 100-plus churches to take down the controversial activist a peg or two from his leadership role in the black community.

October 16, 2013

Chris Matthews called ‘national treasure’ for MSNBC

"Hardball" host Chris Matthews is a top-notch, hard-charging cable news-show host — a "national treasure," said MSNBC's president, referring to recent ratings.

October 16, 2013

Sen. Ted Cruz’s hometown paper renounces support

Sen. Ted Cruz's hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, has backtracked on its support and tossed its endorsement to the wind, now entreating the de facto leader of the tea party cause — whom they cheered in November — to rein in his politics and start acting like his predecessor.

October 16, 2013

Rielle Hunter sorry for Edwards affair — as memoir heads to book shelves

Rielle Hunter, the formerly non apologetic mistress of John Edwards — a rising Democratic star who was touted as the next White House sensation until his sordid affair became public — now says her actions were "selfish," and she wants readers to buy her just-released, updated memoir so she can tell them how many ways she was wrong.

October 16, 2013

Delaware giddy as Resident No. 1 enrolls in Obamacare

Delaware announced its first successful enrollment into the Obamacare marketplace on Tuesday.

October 16, 2013

Oreos as addictive as cocaine, morphine: scientists

Researchers at Connecticut College threw some lab rats into a maze, stacked one side with rice cakes and the other with Oreos, recorded their reactions to each — and, a few scientific tests later, concluded "America's Favorite Cookie" is as addictive as morphine and cocaine.

October 16, 2013

Senate GOP on shutdown: Top 10 reasons it’s not ‘all bad’

Not all the fallout from the government shutdown is negative, harmful or destructive, Republicans in the Senate said on Tuesday. In fact, some outcomes — 10 of them, to be exact — are downright positive.

October 16, 2013

Army Strong: Ranger’s unconscious salute inspires, captivates a grateful nation

There's tough. There's Marine Corps tough. And now there's an entirely new category: Injured, hooked-to-tubes, unconscious — but still saluting — Army Ranger tough.

October 16, 2013

British doctors warned not to call the obese ‘obese’

Don't call the outrageously fat "obese," doctors in Britain have been told. Why? The label could damage their self-esteem, the country's health watchdog said in newly released policy papers.

October 16, 2013

Egyptian foreign minister calls relations with U.S. ‘in turmoil’

The current state of relations between Egyptian and U.S. authorities has sunk to such lows that the entire Middle East region could suffer, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said Wednesday.

October 16, 2013

Valerie Jarrett was ‘architect’ of Obama’s shutdown strategy: author Ed Klein

A new theory from author Ed Klein — who previously penned "The Amateur," about President Obama's White House leadership — suggests that senior adviser Valerie B. Jarrett orchestrated the chief executive's strategies in the government shutdown.

October 16, 2013

Underwear over Pyongyang? Swedish fashionista mulls airdrop of 450 pairs

Bjorn Borg, famous Swedish undergarment designer and manufacturer, said he's mulling a public relations and advertising campaign that could see thousands of underwear dropped over North Korea — a "Weapons of Mass Seduction."

October 16, 2013

Injured kangaroo limps into ‘Flying Kangaroo’ airport pharmacy for aid

The big question on shocked witnesses' minds, no doubt, as they watched an injured kangaroo limp and hop into a pharmacy in Melbourne Airport in Australia on Wednesday: How did he know?

October 16, 2013

Duke basketball team faces fire for West Point pose with fake firearms

Duke basketball players were forced to pull a photograph from the college's Twitter account after anti-gun activists complained about the content: Team members were holding fake rifles, in recognition of their visit to West Point military academy.

October 16, 2013

Tattoo taboo: D.C. mulls 24-hour waiting period on skin ink

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are mulling a new rule that would require tattoo-seekers to wait 24 hours before they get their ink.

October 16, 2013

Hillary Clinton jabs at Joe Biden: He didn’t want bin Laden raid

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a jab at Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Tuesday, saying he didn't want the bin Laden raid to go forth — and making, in the meanwhile, what some political watchers have perceived as an offensive maneuver to stake out her 2016 claim to the White House.

October 16, 2013

Police make arrest in L.A. airport dry ice explosions

Police have arrested a man in connection with one of the dry ice explosions that hit at Los Angeles International Airport this week, on Sunday and on Monday.

October 16, 2013

Antonin Scalia: 14th Amendment for all, not ‘only the blacks’

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia issued what's sure to spark a fury of debate between the warring sides of affirmative action, telling a packed courtroom on Tuesday that the 14th Amendment wasn't penned simply to protect blacks.

October 16, 2013

China mocks U.S. as debt default looms

Chinese state media have been filled this week with cartoon images of America's leaders, mocking them for stumbling on a debt deal while depicting the nation as a beggar.

October 16, 2013